<b><b><b><b>From the author of <i>Bonds of Brass</i>, don''t miss Hullmetal Girls, which <i>NPR </i>calls</b></b> "a little <i>Ender''s Game</i>, a little <i>Hunger Games</i>, [and] a little <i>Battlestar Gallactica</i>."</b></b><br><b><b><br></b></b> Aisha Un-Haad would do anything for her family. When her brother contracts a plague, she knows her janitor''s salary isn''t enough to fund his treatment. So she volunteers to become a Scela, a mechanically enhanced soldier sworn to protect and serve the governing body of the Fleet, the collective of starships they call home. If Aisha can survive the harrowing modifications and earn an elite place in the Scela ranks, she may be able to save her brother. <br><br>Key Tanaka awakens in a Scela body with only hazy memories of her life before. She knows she''s from the privileged end of the Fleet, but she has no recollection of why she chose to give up a life of luxury to become a hulking cyborg soldier. If she can make it through the training,